"Economic development is not just building a Costco or a car dealership", said Santa Cruz County supervisor Zach Friend, closing out a three hour workshop on the basics of broadband development. "What we're doing now is laying down a backbone for future economic development."

"As inventors and innovators we believe in the US patent system to protect our inventions such as the MotionX X24 Sensor-Fusion processor," said Philippe Kahn, founder and CEO of Fullpower. "The MotionX X24 Technology Platform leads the wearable paradigm shift with a broad IP portfolio and the best algorithm for sleep, activity and location tracking."

Free and open to the public, "the Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a national program of evening gatherings that bring artists, scientists, and scholars together for informal presentations and conversations."

"The most important point is that there's value at every level. And in my humble opinion, we tech professionals have recently focused on machine-generated "big data" to the exclusion of much better access and discovery into data at every level."

"...the company continues to hold the leadership position in the emerging unified communications sector and has managed to grow that part of the business 36 percent during the year, Kannappan told analysts and investors in a conference call" last week.

Rosen, a professor of computer engineering at UCSC's Baskin School of Engineering, helped develop the first Raven surgical robot ... The robotic surgery systems are now being used at about a dozen research universities across the country."

"Civinomics had the opportunity to participate in a round-table discussion hosted by the non-profit Tech for America, featuring Brookings Institution author Bruce Katz. ...one case study in the book has special relevance for the experiment in civic participation we are conducting here at Civinomics."

"Founded in 2011 by 3D design veterans Chris Yonge and Dave Britton, MakersFactory doesn't limit its offerings to 3D design and printing. The company also provides services and classes in animation, modeling, robotics, and gaming..."

"Learn to Discover teaches many different kinds of technology workshops in a large variety of subjects in after school programs, classrooms, parties, events and more that address the important areas of STEAM. Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math."